Distinguished Lecture Series to Feature Former Texas Poet Laureate
Contact:
Dr. Eric Meljac
806-651-2486
Canyon,Texas—Karla K. Morton will speak at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, November 7 in West Texas A&M University’s Sybil B. Harrington Fine Arts Complex Recital Hall. Like all WTAMU Distinguished Lecture Series events, this event is free and open to the public.
Described as “one of the more adventurous voices in American poetry,” Morton was the 2010 Texas Poet Laureate. She is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and is a celebrated poet, award-winning author, speaker and photographer.
“Karla K. Morton is more than a poet, she’s an inspiration. Morton is a ‘can’t miss’ poet, for she writes from the heart,” said Dr. Eric Meljac, assistant professor of English.
Morton has won the Western Heritage Wrangler Award, Betsy Colquitt Award, Eric Hoffer Award, Indie Book Award, North Texas Book Festival Award and was a finalist for the Montaigne Medal and a nominee for the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame and Pushcart Prize.
“For many years we have had many poets from many places in the U.S. on campus to give readings—Ohio, Florida, and Virginia among them,” Meljac said. “Finally, it was time to look at our shared home—Texas—and have one of Texas’s current most famous poets share her poetry with us.”
Morton is a two-time cancer survivor and is frequently invited to present as a keynote speaker at conventions, conferences, galas, universities, bookstores and festivals. She inspires, engages, and entertains audiences with her warm and feisty spirit, her stories of perseverance, her connection to nature and her Texas-sized humor.
About WTAMU’s Distinguished Lecture Series
The Distinguished Lecture Series was created to enhance education in the classroom by inviting people of national prominence to speak to WTAMU students about important issues. For more information, please visit, https://www.wtamu.edu/about/distinguished-lecture-series.aspx
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